I loved the Hayden Planetarium as a kid. I was amazed at the giant hunk of pockmarked iron that greeted us just inside the entrance. A meteorite from space! (The Rose Center is cool too.)
Vintage Photo: Hayden Planetarium, NYC circa 1980s
Street Photography
I especially love how the car gives a reference point.
Cars that didn’t seem old at the time look old now.
Yes. And how new and fresh they looked then! I compare them to a tulip, say, which has looked the same forever and yet is always up to the moment. And it’s made me think why this is. In your photo, the building has no age, in my mind, like the tulip, but that car…yes. Tired out.
Buildings can be anachronistic. In those cases, symbols of modern times can be juxtaposed, but when frozen in time even these modern symbols become dated. But as you mentioned living things like flowers or trees never become dated. (But trees get bigger with time.)
Reference in time, I mean.
;>)